Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

There is no shame in impulse. — Douglas Coupland
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while… — Thornton Wilder
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness,… — Ellen Hopkins
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and… — Honore de Balzac
Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us… — C.S. Lewis
To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly… — George MacDonald
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier
Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it. — Stephen King
True alchemy lies in this formula: â€˜Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulseâ€™. — Arthur Rimbaud
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to… — Curtis Sittenfeld
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. — Stephen Covey
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? — Scott Westerfeld
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent… — Joseph Heller
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the… — Elizabeth Kostova
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of… — George Bernard Shaw

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